Issue 4: “Love, Surrendered.”

Visual art submissions

Love is the inimitable, ineffable force that moves us, creates us, and evolves us.

However, it is not only “love” that we were taught that we wish to explore in Issue 4 of our publication. It is love’s varying and multidimensional forms — desire, lust, self-love, self-preservation, orgasm of many varieties, empathy, compassion, grace, rage, sorrow, and more — that we wish to explore.

And deeper, it is not only forms of love, but the surrendering to these forms explored, that we wish to exhibit. What is it to surrender, and surrender to love? What are the visceral, subtle, and lived challenges of surrendering? What does love teach you as you surrender deeper and deeper into its alluring force?

Allow the following prompts to guide you in your reflection and creation:

Poeticize your self-forgiveness and process extending forgiveness.

Write on cultural evolution as a demonstration of choosing love.

What does it mean to learn (& live) the language of true love?

Write about your experience of an expanding or opening heart.

Write of the texture and flavors of grace as you have experienced it.

We’re excited to consider any rendering of visual art to include in Issue 4 on the theme of “Love, Surrendered.”: photography, painting, collage, digital media, textile art, figure art, sculpture, experimental art, intuitive art — let your authentic creative power burn bright.

As you prepare to share your artwork with us, if you desire to fortify and nourish your authentic creativity, please engage in any part of our Creative Enrichment Studio — 1-1 coaching, online immersions, self-paced courses, and A Writer’s Paradise. We are here to support you beyond this publication.

For the cover, we’ll choose the artwork that best encapsulates Issue 4’s theme and the selected writing.

Details about Issue 4:

  • Submission window: August 1 - September 30, 2025

  • Artists will be notified if their submission is selected by November 1, 2025.

  • Issue 4 will launch in November 2025.

There is a USD $5 fee for each submission. All submission fees support the costs and maintenance of this publication and platform.

General Guidelines

  • You may submit up to 4 pieces of artwork for consideration. Please ensure all pieces are high-quality images in PNG or JPG. Each piece should have its own title.

  • Themes to keep in mind + heart while considering your submission: Love, Body, Spirituality, Wellness, Identity

  • You are welcome to submit your visual art if you identify as a woman of color. If you do not but are passionate about this platform and opportunity, please extend your passion by sharing this opportunity with a special woman of color artist in your life.

  • All submissions must be original and unpublished; we do not accept previously published submissions, either in print or digitally. We ask for First Electronic and Archival Rights: your selected submission will first be shared through our digital Literary Anthology before it is published elsewhere. We will then archive your work to be accessed for future purposes/inspiration/teaching. By submitting your work, you agree to this.

  • The contents of your submission are original and your sole creation — no AI was used. We embrace your authentic creative intelligence.

  • There is a USD $5 fee for each submission. All submission fees support the costs and maintenance of this important publication.

  • We hold your submissions in strict confidence and privacy, whether or not they are published. Your submission will only be seen by the Wellspringwords® editorial team.

  • We do not offer monetary compensation at this time. If you desire to support our initiative of empowering artists, you may contact us to discuss sponsorship opportunities.

As you prepare to join us, please take some time to read our About page and to enjoy the many published pieces by other talented women of color, found here.

More about contributing to the Wellspringwords® Literary Anthology:

  • Explore your authentic Self, your wisdom within, and your creative expression.

  • Add to your portfolio of published artwork.

  • Join the Wellspringwords® community of writers and artists from around the world.

  • Must identify as a woman of color/woman of the global majority.

  • Artwork must align with the essence of Wellspringwords® — connecting to your deep, authentic Self, and expressing that creatively.